# I want a huge neck. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 3, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215 "2006-01-03T14:50:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/1 "2006-01-03T14:50:02Z")
I want a huge, muscular neck. Sort of like Henry Rollins in that one video. I know that a general great workout regimen will yield one, somewhat, but there has to be some neck exercises that will specifically target same for the big muscles, and quick results. Can anybody help? thanks, hh ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/2 "2006-01-03T16:22:18Z")
Not sure about quick results (not be a weightlifter I have no idea how fast results happen), but there are machines for ‘weight training’ your neck. It’s basically a thing that you push down with your head (or side to side) and it pulls up weights somewhere else. Hold on a sec, I bet I can find a picture. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/3 "2006-01-03T16:27:52Z")
[Here’s one](http://www.chfpatients.com/faq/exercises/neck_curls.htm) Not the one I was thinking of, but same basic idea. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/4 "2006-01-03T17:58:33Z")
A couple of things to remember with muscle development. Doing exercises for your neck will certainly increase your neck strength, but whether it results in a “huge” neck depends on your physiology, just as for other strength training. When I started weight training my strength (measured by the weights I was lifting) skyrocketed in the first year but I didn’t get much bigger. There are lots of machines for neck training, like the one linked above. In high school we had a contraption that was basically just a spring with a headband attached to it and we would pull it in different directions. Others put your head between two parallel pads on the sides and you turn back and forth, or front and back and you sort of nod your head. Nautilus makes (or at least used to make) them. My gym had one but that was 18 years ago and they aren’t so common now. Here’s someone [selling some used ones](http://epage.com/js/mi/1652652.html) with a decent photo. A lot depends on your muscle configuration (long muscle bellies mean easier to build bulk, for example). Of course, with steriods YMMV. Neck exercises can be dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. ---
**Author:** ![ethelbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@ethelbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ethelbert)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/5 "2006-01-03T18:29:19Z")
My brother was a highschool wrestler & he developed his neck by doing a ‘wrestler’s bridge’ (see [http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/schultz8.htm](http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/schultz8.htm) ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/6 "2006-01-03T19:21:33Z")
Deadlifts and shrugs. ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/7 "2006-01-03T19:31:19Z")
Do it as cheaply as possible. You’ll need the money for tailored dress shirts. The only off-the-rack shirts that fit a big neck are for fat guys, and will look like balloons on most people. I stare with open longing at deli counter meat slicers. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/8 "2006-01-03T20:51:00Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > Deadlifts and shrugs. Ditto. In fact, I just do deadlifts because I don’t want my neck to entirely disappear. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/9 "2006-01-03T21:14:05Z")
> [@Grossbottom](#): > > Do it as cheaply as possible. You’ll need the money for tailored dress shirts. The only off-the-rack shirts that fit a big neck are for fat guys, and will look like balloons on most people. > > I stare with open longing at deli counter meat slicers. You beat me to it. When I had an 18" neck, with an average build, every off the rack shirt hung off me like a dang tent. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/10 "2006-01-03T21:14:43Z")
You do realize that a lot of women find the huge neck thing extremely unattractive, right? ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/11 "2006-01-03T21:21:26Z")
I certainly find the huge-neck thing quite unattractive, as **Twickster** says. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/12 "2006-01-03T21:27:13Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > You do realize that a lot of women find the huge neck thing extremely unattractive, right? Ditto that. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/13 "2006-01-03T21:29:56Z")
I reckon my neck is proportioned about right, I just need a little head. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/14 "2006-01-03T21:54:59Z")
> [@Duke of Rat](#): > > I reckon my neck is proportioned about right, I just need a little head. Don’t we all, **Dukey**. Don’t we all. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/15 "2006-01-04T00:51:07Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > You do realize that a lot of women find the huge neck thing extremely unattractive, right? ``` I want a scrawny neck. Sort of the exact opposite of Henry Rollins in that one video.There has to be some neck exercises that will specifically target same for a weak scrawny neck, and quick results. ``` Can anybody help? thanks, hh Thanks everybody for the good input. hh ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-huge-neck/338215/16 "2006-01-04T18:10:33Z")
Ask George Lucas his secret. That guy’s got the biggest neck in Hollywood.